Removing internal opposition and destroying one country after another are planned. Occupy Wall Street is targeted for elimination. Syria tops the queue abroad. Blame game strategy wrongfully accuses Assad for Western crimes.

Potential global war looms. Policymakers are mindless. So are supportive media scoundrels. More on them below.

On May 20 and 21, NATO states and partners invaded Chicago violently. Discussions went way beyond Afghanistan. Focus included Syria. Escalated violence was planned. At issue is regime change. Dangers of potential global war weren't considered.

Officially NATO rules out intervention. Unofficially it's raged for months. Expect much more ahead. Washington, Britain and France are lead belligerents. Assad is more victim than villain.

The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Article 41 says:

The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures.

These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.

Article 42 is most relevant, saying:

Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.

A world body established "to save succeeding generations from the scourge or war" has been instrumental in furthering world conflicts or did nothing to stop them.

Bashar Jaafari is Syria's longstanding UN envoy. He denounced the Western "tsunami of lies." He said hundreds of heavily armed terrorists assaulted five Houla law enforcement facilities.

Attacks continued for nine hours. Two nearby villages were assaulted. "Full-fledged military operations" were premeditated, he said. Shumeria village's hospital was set ablaze. Crops were burned. Villagers were killed.

On June 1, Syrian State media SANA reported initial findings of an internal judicial investigation.

It affirmed that "all the (Houla) victims belonged to peaceful families who wouldn't stand up to the state and had never joined protests or held up arms, who also had opposed the armed terrorist groups."

"The initial findings indicated that the victims were killed by fire at close distance and sharp tools, not by shellfire."

Hundreds of insurgents began slaughtering police and civilians. A well-planned military operation bears responsibility. US, UK, and other foreign security forces operated covertly in Syria since last year. Their direction was evident.

Successful guerrilla warfare depends on competent leadership. Western elements provided it against Gaddafi last year. They've targeted Syria for months.

Killer gangs used "mortars, machine guns, and anti-tank missiles." Police facilities were attacked. At the same time, civilian homes were invaded. Entire families were murdered at close range. Police and military forces weren't in areas targeted for carnage.

"(L)aw-enforcement members hadn't left their positions but defended themselves against the terrorist groups, which can be verified through the victims' images aired by satellite channels...."

They showed terrorist killings using "close fire and sharp tools, not shellfire as the images showed no signs of mashing, burns or traces of shelling buildings...."

In other words, Western enlisted death squads killed by "direct liquidation."

Civilian victims "belonged to peaceful families who wouldn't stand up to the state and had never joined protests or help up arms...."

They opposed terror gangs. Violence they commit provide provocations for Western intervention.

"The West cannot stand idly by," said Mahel. A former judge and alleged human rights lawyer, his comments belie his claimed credentials.

On May 31, a Washington Post editorial headlined "What the US should do about Syria?"

It should mind its own business. It should stop interfering in the internal affairs of other states. It should halt lawless belligerence. It should end its imperial agenda. Its officials should be held fully accountable for crimes of war and against humanity.

The Post endorses more of what should be condemned. It called Annan's diplomacy "feckless," and anti-Assad support from "Russian strongman Vladimir Putin" unlikely.

It endorses active US intervention. Doing so assures war. It urges safe zones in Syrian territory "defended by air power" and foreign troops.

It wants killer gangs given more weapons and intelligence. It claims most Syrians oppose Assad when, in fact, a sizable majority support him. It endorses aggressive intervention to topple him. Previous editorials and commentaries urged the same thing.

The Post features writers like Charles Krauthammer. He tilts far enough right to make him a belligerent. On April 26, he headlined"While Syria burns," saying:

Since last year, Assad committed massacres. He blames him for "disappearances, executions, indiscriminate shelling of populated neighborhoods," and killing thousands.

Hyperbole substituted for verifiable facts. He backs more aggressive intervention.

Post columnist Jennifer Rubin tilts as far right as Krauthammer. On June 1, her "Morning Bits" article included a section on Syria. It endorsed direct US intervention with or without Security Council authorization.

Like other imperial war supporters, rule of law principles don't matter. Might is right notions are good enough. Scoundrel media feature this type journalism. Wars follow. Deaths mount. One conflict begets others. Unless stopped, expect an eventual thermonuclear one.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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The first casualty of war is the truth. In a state of perpetual war and constant crisis,it is revolutionary to speak the truth. The author is just such a revolutionary in the midst of a complicit media monopoly.

I wish people would count the number of wars around the planet in which multinationals have involvement and you would see that three (3) is the wrong number as we have had global warfare ongoing since WWI and would be well beyond the number 3 some time ago. The MSM has been miscounting all along; just part of the Dumb Down process.

Regardless of legitimacy of these claims, Assad's father destroyed whole towns to suppress insurgent groups within Syria. Thus these claims prima facia have some semblence of coherence and fall within the methods of operation of this regime.

This planned global war footing was all admitted and described in a book by Thomas P.M. Barnett entitled "The Pentagons New Map" which lays out the entire plan for attacking multiple middle eastern nations to include the budgets necessary for this plan and even talks about the US plan to segregate American citizens into colored categories according to their threat level against the new regime that would be in charge as America falls apart at the seams and how they would be placed in the re-education camps if found trustworthy of being "Re-Educated". It is written in many places what their plans are, you just have to research what their plans are.

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